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R. M. HUGH-ES.

APPARATUS POR MAKING VINEGAR.

No. 483,063. Patented Sept. 20, 1892.

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No. 483,063. Patented' sept. ,20, '1892.

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RUSSELL M. HUGHES, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

APPARATUS FOR MAKING VINEGAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part'of Letters Patent No. 483,063, dated September 20, 1892. Application filed April 2, 1892 I Serial No. 427,516. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUSSELL M. HUGHES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jeiferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus or Plants for Making Vinegar; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and uso the same.

` My invention relates to an improved apparatus or plant for the manufacture of vinegar; and it has for its object to secure exact results, and also to effect saving inthe liquid in preventing the spilling of the same and saving in labor; and to these ends it consists in means to feed or charge the wash to the charging-trough, and from there to the plant or series of generators, and to make the required cross, all substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed, andpointed outin the claims.

In the ordinary way of making vinegar the Wash is drawn from the Wash-tank into a bucket by hand and packed and the contents of the bucket poured into a generator, this also being done by hand. A quantity of the liquid is next drawn by hand into a bucket from said generator and the contents of the bucket poured into a second generator. Vinegar is then drawn olf by hand into a bucket from the second generator and poured into the receiver, and to make a cross each second or third bucket containing part-made vinegar is taken from generator No.1 and poured into generator No. 2. In like manner vinegar is taken from generator No. 2 and poured into generator No. l, this for the purpose of imparting additional sourness to the packing of generator No. l.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a broken sectional elevation of my apparatus or plant for the manufacture of vinegar. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same, taken at an angle of ninetydegrees to the plane of the section of Fig. 1.

In the embodiment of my invention I ernploy the usual wash-tanks A, into which the wash is pumped by a suitable pump, and from this tank the wash is drawn off by an ordinary faucet a into a charging-box B, of a capacity to hold just enough Wash and no more to properly charge or fill a charging-trough C. The trough C is, as seen most clearly in Fig. l, subdivided into a series of shallow compartments orsections c, one 'for each bucket of each one of the upper row of generators, presently described, said compartments each being adapted to hold the quantity of wash to till each bucket of said generators. The outlet-openings d of the respective compartments or sections c of the charging-trough O are normally closed by plugs D, fitting or seated at their lower tapered ends in said openings. The plugs D are automatically held in their seats by springs d', preferably coiled around reduced upper portions of said plugs and held under tension between shoulders cl2 on said plugs and cross-pieces d3, held upon uprights d4, to which the side pieces of the trough O are secured.

E is a handled shaft suitably journaled in supports or brackets d5, fastened to the trough O, and having connection by cords or straps ewith the plugs D to permit by turning said shaft in the required direction the Winding of said straps or cords upon said shaft and the consequent removal or unseating of the plugs or valves for the escape or outlet of the wash.

F F are the generators, preferably arranged in an upper and a lower row-say twelve or fifteen deep-and having hung or pivoted in chute-like extensions f at their upper ends buckets G, the aligning buckets of upper and lower generators being connected together by rods or bars pivoted near their ends to said buckets, respectively, to permit the simultaneous dumping or tilting of the buckets. H is also a shaft suitably journaled in a hanger or bracket h, secured to a beam h above, and in a cross-piece d6, projecting from one of the uprights d4. for its convenient actuation, has connection with the bucket-connecting rods or bars gby a toggle or jointed lever or pitman H2, the toggle-joint being provided to allow the dumping or tilting of the buckets by the turning of said lever when it is desired to empty the buckets into the generators.

Journaled upon the front side of the upper row of the generators is a handled shaft I, having connection by cords or straps t' with the spring-pressed plugs J, applied to these This shaft, having a crank H IOO l along the base of said generators, the liquid or vinegar being carried by the trough to the receiver. (Not shown.)

From what has been Vstated herein concerning the ordinary mode of making vinegar the operation of my apparat-us or plant will be readily understood by those skilled or expert in the business, the different steps in the latter being performed mechanically and, as is obvious, much more expeditiously and with greater facility and unattended with the spilling of the liquid and the labor involved in the use of said ordinary method, and yet securing equally as good and exact results.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an apparatus for making vinegar, the combination of the charging-trough having compartments and means for effecting the discharge of the contents of said compartments, the upper generators having tilting buckets hung in chutes upon the upper ends of said generators, and means for dumping or tilting said buckets, said charging-trough compartments adapted to discharge into said buckets, substantially as set forth.

2. In an apparatus for makingvinegar, the combination of the charging-trough having compartments and means for eiecting the dis'- charge of the contents'of said compartments, the upper-and lower generators having tilting buckets hnngin chutes upon the upper ends of said generators, aligned upper and lower buckets being connected together and the upper buckets adapted to receive the contents of the compartments of the chargingtrough, means for operating or tilting the `buckets of the upper and lower generators,

and plugs or valves applied to the upper generators and adapted to `deliver the contents of the upper generators into the buckets of the lower generators, and means for operating said plugs or valves, substantially as specified.

3. In an apparatus or plant for making vinegar, the combination, with the upper and lower generators, of the plugs or valves applied to the upper generators and means for operating said plugs, the tilting buckets arranged upon said generators and connected together, and means for actuating or tilting said buckets, said plugs or valves being adapted to draw oft the liquid of the upper generators into the buckets of the lower generators, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my naine in presence of two witnesses.

R. M. HUGHES. Witnesses:

ALF. H. PEYToN, J. F. RIGsLY. 

